August 02, 2015, 3:23PM

Robert E. Lee is a central figure in the debate over the future of monuments that reference the Confederacy in New Orleans and other cities across the country. Some see him as a symbol of white oppression and the romanticizing of the rebellion that cost hundreds of thousands of American lives; others portray Lee as a genteel Southerner who... Full story »

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade takes place after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade takes place after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade takes place after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade takes place after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade takes place after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade begins after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade begins after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade takes place after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade begins after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 3:07PM

The Satchmo Salute second line parade begins after the annual Jazz Mass at the church of Sidney Bechet on Sunday August 2, 2015. The second line proceeded to Satchmo SummerFest at the Old U.S. Mint. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, NOLA.com l The Times-Picayune)

August 02, 2015, 2:49PM

August 02, 2015, 2:49PM

This is a letter to the editor of The New York Times written by Robert E. Lee. (The letter itself says 1857, but that is an error; Custis was still alive in January 1857.) Jan. 8, 1858. (The New York Times)